Kumar's advice is sound. You must make sure you are actually indexing the special symbols.
To make a query with special characters you must make sure you urlencode the parameters before sending them to Solr. There are some symbols which have a special meaning in the lucene query syntax are '+', '-', ':' which you will have to escape by adding a backslash in front of it. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jana, Kumar Raja <kj...@ptc.com> wrote: > Filtering of special characters depends on the filters you use for the > fields in your schema.xml. > > If you are using WordDelimiterFilterFactory in your analyzer then the > special characters get removed during the processing of your field. But > the WordDelimiterFilterFactory does a lot of other things too than just > removing the special characters. If you feel that you can do away with > the other features provided by the filter then you can remove it from > your schema.xml file. In any other case, I guess you will have to > customize the WordDelimiterFilter.java class to suit your purpose. > > -Kumar > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sujatha Arun [mailto:suja.a...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:05 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Special characters > > Hi, > > I would like to query terms containing special chars . > > Regards > Sujatha > > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < > shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You forgot to tell us what do you want to do with special characters? > > > > 1. Remove them from the documents while indexing? > > 2. Don't remove them while indexing? > > 3. Query with terms containing a special character? > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Sujatha Arun <suja.a...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Can anyone point me to the thread if it exists on indexing special > > > characters in solr. > > > > > > Regards > > > Sujatha > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
